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On September 02 2009 04:08 zatic wrote:
Original Red Alert german version had robots fighting each other! How about that.
Whatever, everyone who cares about the game will buy the English version anyway just to avoid the bad translations and German voice actors. Not to mention the retarded German hotkey layout should they change it for foreign versions again.
Quoted for the truth. Looks like I'll have to import from the UK yet again.
But damn, it still do really hate it, when they do that ****.
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On May 04 2010 20:24 Clamev wrote:
Warning: The last post in this thread is over two months old.
If you bump this, you better have a good reason.
Yes i do have a reason.
because in Germany you can get a betakey but i hesitate because it will be the censored version.
Is there any way to get the noncensored version and play it with a german Battle.net account?
I could pick the language before downloading the client if I remember correctly. I have a normal, uncensored version and can play just fine from Germany on Euro servers.
However, if you want a (translated) German version you will have to live with less gore effects i suppose.
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I could pick the language before downloading the client if I remember correctly. I have a normal, uncensored version and can play just fine from Germany on Euro servers.
yeah but it´s only beta and i do think that you can download a version wich is in english (like in wow)
but will the animations be also not censored?
I mean what sence does it male to usk a game from wich you can download the non censored version for it.That is why i am asking.
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lolol theyre afraid too much blood in german videogames will cause another holocaust.
bad, bad germans!
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They last version Blizzard send to the USK got a 12+ rating. So you better don't be sure that Germany ends up with a less gory version.
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to clarify...
germany does not censor anything:
blizzard could go on, leave everything as is and just sell the thing. the non-governmental committee then slaps a seal onto the package saying "FSK 18" short for "freiwillige selbstkontrolle" - "voluntary self regulation"
yes - the customer can decide for himself.
there's another committee, a governmental one, responsible for banning stuff such as swastikas when historically unnecessary (yop swastikas are banned by constitution) or if there is a strong case to be made about protecting minors.
and "banning" for violence would only mean that it's on a list ("auf'm index") which then obligates vendors to check for ID, if a customer is indeed 18.
SC2 wouldn't have to fear that process - there's (still) lots of leeway and there's other, much more dangerous stuff available out there. iirc not even (any) Mortal Kombat made it onto that list.
no, blizzard is doing this all by itself. blame them.
or blame the educational system for enabling localized versions.
also, stop feeding the beast -.-
i haven't purchased a dubbed version in... 15 years now.. (dayum...) and i get much more value to boot: instead of just a DVD case i usually receive the good ole "box"
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http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=24630973022&pageNo=1&sid=5011#9
There you go. No censorship for Starcraft 2. Feel free to preorder from amazon.de.
I'm pretty sure you will be able to play it in English too. Even if the installer won't be multilanguage you'll probably still be able to download a language pack or just get the client from an English battle.net account (at least that's how I did it for WC3).
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Fun fact: The German version of Team Fortress 2 has toys, gears, and birthday baloons instead of blood.
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Has anyone played Warcraft II in German? Yeah, I'm not gonna get translated Blizzard games anymore anyway.
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Censorship is the worst abomination ever to reach human kind. It's up there with Religion, and other scary concepts such as American foreign politics and fish on pizzas.
Any remotely enthusiatic fan of Starcraft II will revert from buying the german version.
But I perfectly understand Blizzard's mindset in this. Censorship = no moneh ^^ No new users.
Still, in terms of a matter of principle, it's a clusterfuck of epic proportions.
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Any remotely enthusiatic fan of Starcraft II will revert from buying the german version.
Actually you get a beta key and a non-censored version of the game... what's wrong about that?
Languages will probably be swappable too as stated above so I don't really see an issue there (except for the UK version being about half the price).
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perhaps blizzard should make units faint like in pokemon
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Germany has always been very strict about what happens in media ever since the second world war. I guess it has something to do with them not wanting the rest of the world being viewed in any negative way (with regards to the nazis I'm sure).
I think it's ridicilous how even to this day and age we censor games and movies, but then I'm not affected by any censorship so I can't really say it matters much to me.
EDIT: One interesting thing is how you take out the blood in a game like L4D1/2. A game based around gore without it is just another barbie game.
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On May 06 2010 01:21 ownageskynet wrote:
perhaps blizzard should make units faint like in pokemon
2nded ^________________^
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On September 02 2009 04:04 FrozenArbiter wrote:So retarded  Not Blizzard's fault at all, but Germany is seriously insane when it comes to this stuff -.-
Maybe so, but really: Why risk your game to be accused of being too violent and making all the children homicidal maniacs if you can just leave out the blood, which noone will really care about anyways?
It's fine to have principles and stuff and censorship is IMHO very seldom the way to go, but do you really care enough about the game being bloody to risk an angry mob of misinformed parents to get out their torches and forks to once again rage against the gaming-community? ^^'
It's just not worth it IMHO. 
If it was about nudity though - that's a whole other story! ^^'
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what's with all this necro posting lol
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i´ll get an english version anyway, i am about to puke when i read the german translations for most units(and dont even know if its a stalker or a sentry :D)
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Left4Dead did the same thing, nothing new here.
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Everybody, please avoid the word censorship.
Blizzard is deliberately modifying their game in order to be able to sell more copies. The government doesn't force them to do anything. Even if the game would be rated as appropriate for adults only, adult people would still be able to buy it with all the blood included.
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On May 06 2010 00:30 MasterFischer wrote:
Censorship is the worst abomination ever to reach human kind. It's up there with Religion, and other scary concepts such as American foreign politics and fish on pizzas.
Whole-heartedly agree with this statement.
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